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1. The Minimum Wage, Lost Jobs, And Poverty in Canada

   Raising minimum wages is usually done in an attempt to help low-income households. However, extensive research shows higher minimum wages rarely provide a boost to the intended households, and often hurt the very people they intend to help. There is near ...

2. Poor policies largely drive Ontario’s lagging labour market performance

   This second post on Ontario’s lack of prosperity focuses on unemployment in the province, a key measure of the performance of the labour market. Recall that the first post illustrated the poor economic growth recorded in the province vis ...